Elisabeth Pohlenz Mostar

Oranges and Geranium in an Interior: 1934 elegant still life Berlin Woman artist

1934

Here is your chance to have your own private chapel with devotional objets and saint figures - in the form of this lovely painting by Joseph Bergès (1878-1956). Berges was born in the South East of France in the Pyrenees, not far from the Spanish border. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Toulouse, he was accepted at the Paris Academy. However, although his career took him to Paris, a remained very much attached to his homeland, a pious, rustic area with many chapel such as the one he portrayed here. Having studied with the Masters Eugène Cormon and Léon Bonnat , Bergès exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1907. He was obtained a second Grand Prix de Rome in 1908 for the painting The Death...

This charming and exuberant posy of peonies immediately made me think of similar works by Marcel Dyf - but it is actually a work by the ultimate master of art deco...

Here is a painting that will lift you - one feels happy every time one looks at it. It is such a lovely, unusual twist to the theme of the floral still life: here we have flowers, not in a vase, but attached to a wooden front door. I wonder if the artist did this with actual flowers, perhaps for a sweetheart, and then decided to paint the scene? At any rate: who wouldn't want to come home to find a large bunch of glorious lilac as they come home? The artist is Emile Baudoux (1850 -1929), who studied with Humbert and Cabanel. Paris-born, he liked to work in Normandy, where he had his studio. He exhibited his work at the "Salon des Artistes Français" until 1927, where he obtained a gold medal in 1910. The important oil on canvas presented here, dating from 1901, may have been shown at the Salon, as it bears an exhibition number "30" at the upper right of the canvas. It is signed and dated at the lower left as seen in the photos. Measuring 81 x 60 cm, the overall size including its original large oak frame...

A sweet and intimate family scene by the rarest of artists: French early 19th Century child prodigy Henri-Louis-Hippolyte Poterlet (1804-1835). Poterlet was a close friend and confi...

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Antique American impressionist still life oil painting by Elizabeth L. Rothwell (c.1877 - 1946). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Circa 1924.

Antique American impressionist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly. Image size, 20L x 24H.

Antique American realist flower still life oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1900. Unsigned. Image size, 10L x 14H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.